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Sam, one of our Maker Corps Members, reflects on a favorite activity of the summer: Tots run MAKESHOP on Monday mornings when we close off the workshop and have Tot MAKE, with activities designed for younger children, ages 1-3. So far, my favorite Tot MAKE of the summer was when we made tasty jam out of berries. We started off Tot MAKE by reading ‘Don’t Squish the Sasquatch’. Then, we put our squishing skills to the

Anyone can do it… A typical day at work in MAKESHOP can be hard to predict. A couple of days ago, I was taught how to use a laser cutter. An amazing team of students from Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center spent an entire semester developing an iPad app to allow someone like me to do something like use a laser cutter. Some days I deal with a loom, and other days I deal with lase

I decided to drastically change the xylophone that I built for MAKESHOP. While prototyping some ideas with a group of preschool students, some teachers and I noticed that they really enjoy filling up containers and dumping them out. They also really like to put things through holes and fit different size pieces together. I was unofficially commissioned to create a simple prototype that would allow our youngest vis